Thank you, Bruce.Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. Yesterday, we celebrated the end of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Many of the same public health measures that have been successful in stopping Ebola – like case-finding, isolation, testing, contact tracing and respectful care – are the same measures that countries are now deploying against COVID-19.
But we have also had a tool in the fight against Ebola that we do not yet have for COVID-19: an effective vaccine. Without it, there is no doubt we would have had more cases, and more deaths.
It’s clear that to bring COVID-19 under control, and to save lives, we need effective vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics – in unprecedented quantities and at